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with ukraine with the rush to evacuate civil dwraps inside mariupol days or even hours before the city could fall to russians. i am kim brunhuber at cnn world headquarters in atlanta. biden administration fighting pack against decision to end mask mandates on public transportation. day 57 of russia's invasion of ukraine and we begin with a bleak assessment from the luhansk military governor who says no town is safe, russian troops are destroying everything in their path. the government says 80% of the luhansk region is under russian control as they push on with this new offensive to push all the donbas in the east. u.s. defense officials tell cnn russia has added 17 battalion tactical groups so far until the past week but so far, russian forces have not nad any territorial gains since the

donbas offensive began. trying again in the coming hours in the besieged port sea of mariupol. deputy prime minister reports a humanitarian corridor did not work on wednesday. russian forces were not able to a proper cease-fire. and president volodymyr zelenskyy says his forces do not have the heavy weapons neededto defend the city. >> translator: according to our information, they are keeping 120,000 people in besieged mariupol. crimes happening there are far more scarier and larger skalg than boardian ka. i am confident with combined efforts, we can brick all those to justice, and i promise you we will find them all. >> two senior-ukrainian noeshtders say they are prepared to travel to mariupol to secure the evacuation of civilians and soldiers. ask a u.s. state department official say tells cnn nato allies could also be part of process. we have more now from cnn's matt

rivers. >> reporter: the azov steel plan housing mariupol's last line of defense. if the defenders here fall, so goes the city. a few days ago, george says he was right in the heart of the fight. >> i never seen such brutal devastating war 'cause russians are just trying to execute civilians. >> reporter: he spoke to us via video chat from an undisclosed location. severely injured during the tighting, he says he was smuggled out to recover. he is a georgian national and a commander in the azov battalion, one of the few remaining units left defending the city. he was among the soldiers fighting russians, while at the same time, taking care of hundreds civilians sheltering until the area, in videos cnn can't verify posted on ukrainian

government's social media. so how kong do you think your group can take care of all your people and yourselves? >> that is hoard to answer. hard to answer for me. time is short. >> reporter: tens of thousands of citizens in besieged mariupol still need to be evacuated. on wednesday, a slight glimmer of hope. a humanitarian corridor agreed to by both sides where civilians could evacuate mariupol, heading to boardiansk. the city's mayor urging people to use it. he said during these long and incredibly difficult days you survived, you may have heard different things but you want you to know the main thing, they were waiting for you in zaporizhzhia. it is safe there. video from mariupol city council shows bussed lines up ready to take those who want today leave. it is unclear how many got on

but a regional official says fewer people left than he hoped. for many, leaving is is difficult choice. it require trusting the russian military will not harm those trying to leave. and yet, this is the same military that has spent the entire war systematically targeting civilians across the country. and and yet, the city has become unlivable. for the military unit still resisting, they say they are caring for soldiers and civilians, sometimes with the same injuries due to russian' shelling. >> a child or soldier. and i have seen a lot of times a soldier say go ahead take a child, it is a priority. >> reporter: a commander inside the steal plant has urged the international community to set up an evacuation route using a third party, another country that might be able to facilitate transfer of soldiers and civilians to safety. if that doesn't happen, he says russia will continue the

bombardment and it will end only one way. >> there will be nobody left in this area. they will be dead. or the children -- i am not talking about the children but the civilians will be eliminated and it's going to be on us. o >> reporter: matt rivers, cnn, lviv, ukraine. >> russia tested a intercontinental ballistic missile wednesday. the rs 28 dubbed satan 2 by nato is capable of carrying a umuch bigger nuclear payload president putin says it should make russia's enemies think twice. diet the timing, u.s. is not overly concerned about any security threat from the mis missile. >> obligations that plan to test this missile, defense department said today we did not deem the test a threat to the united states or its allies and the timing ask scope of russia's missile test do not influence

our approach to if you recollecter invasions of ukraine. u.s. sanctions announced wednesday targeting russia's fbl system, sbels prk those who attempt to evade sanctions already in place. a commercial bank, companies engaged in mining cryptocurrency and large global network aligned an al gark have been hit with new sanctions. these were imposed on more than 600 russian individuals. european council president, sharls michelle became the latist western leader to travel to kyiv. during wednesday's meeting, they shared president zelenskyy discussed possible new tougher sanctions on russia, as well as rebuilding ukraine once the war is over. it has been almost three weeks now, since the russian retreat from regions near the ukrainian capital, kyiv, and there continues to be more and more horrible, terrible stories being revealed by ones who have now lift that region. ukrainians who survived the op slaut are speaking out about what they endured, as well.

cnn's phil black has the story. >> reporter: andre says his life will approximate forever split in two. before and after the day the russians came. he remembers the skies over his home in hostomel, near kyiv, suddenly swarming with dozens of attack helicopters. he says they flew in a low formation, like they were on parade. and soon after, he says, russian ground forces approached his home. this is where he says they opened fire from a distance, an explosive round landed close by, fracturing his leg. shrapnel piercing much of his body but andre says he was lucky. he got to hospital before the russians worked out. he says many veterans from the east were deliberatery killed during the occupation.

if i had not been wounded, i would have been shoot, too, he says. also, survived russia's occupation but at great cost. the city but shocked by the russian firepower that rolled into a tiny village northeast of the capital. so many tanks passed, he said, so much ammunition, every house had 20 soldiers occupying it, including the house where he, his neighbor, and family were h sheltering. they stayed in the basement. the russians moved in above. one night, the city stays four drunk soldiers pushed open the door and screamed everyone out by the count of ten or all will be killed. the city says women were screaming, children crying, and as he was the last one through the door, he was blasted from behind with a shotgun.

he says nothing is left of the leg or bones destroyed. just a puddle of bludood in minutes. he says two days later, some russian soldiers helped him get to hospital. he still thinks they are beasts, not people. the russian' invasion of areas around kyiv, violently interrupted and ended many people's lives and some would somehow survive brutal intimate encounters leaving them forever changed. phil black, ukraine. stake a short break. when we come back, kim brunhuber will have details on passengers cheering this new reeling about the mask mandates. why the justice department is now appealing that ruling. also, even elderly are not spare as china sends all covid cases to quarantine under its strict zero-covid policy. details on that, in a moment.

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the u.s. justice department. airlines and transit agencies move squikly to make masks optional. jeremy diamond has details. >> reporter: a federal judge struck down the federal mask manu mandate for travelers, ckc asking it is asking the justice department to appeal that by a federal judge. the justice department a day earlier said they would move forward with ab order if the cdc dimed it was necessary and that is what is now necessary. this is the statement from the cdc. they say to protect cdc's public health authority, cdc has asked

doj to proceed requewith an app. it is cdc continuing assessment at this time, a record requiring masking in the indoor-transportation corridor remains necessary for public health. now, cdc also says here, that they are going to continue to monitor pibl-health conditions as it relates to the necessity of this mask mandate going forward but what is really interesting here is the cdc is plaining on two fronts. on the one handle, they are saying look, we believe the conditions in the country make it necessary for this mask mandate to still be standing, for travelers to be wearing masking on planes, as well as trains and other moetds of tons prartation. but they are also saying they are appealing this decision, in order to preserve that legal aauthority they had to institute this mask mba date in the first place. and the white house press secretary, jen psaki, she made this point earlier on wednesday as well. when she said that, look, there are going to approximate highs and lows in this pandemic, and that should there be some kind

of new variant, of a more -- more -- manufore serious or upt in cases again, the cdc wants to attain that legal authority, to be able to reinstitute that mask mandate, if necessary. jeremy diamond, cnn the white house. >> all right. for more on this, let's bring in cnn legal ab list, areva martin joins us from los angeles. areva, thanks so much for being here with us. on the appeal, first off, does the doj have a shot here? after all, it would be heard in the relatively conservative 11th circuit, right? >> yeah, that is definitely one consideration, john. but what we do know is that there have been challenging to the mask mandate, and prior to this one district court judge sitting in this florida, you know, courtroom making the decision that the mask mandate was basically not legal. that the cdc and the biden administration had otver steppe

its power, other courts, determined the biden administration did have authority to make these mandatory to address paubl health crisis so i think the doj had no choice but to challenge this given how sweeping it with was, and how sudden it was and how quickly it changed the policy that had opinion put in place by the cdc. >> all right. so now, to the process. i mean, there seems to be a lot of confusion here over the white house' response to this, which took several days. what do you make of their appeal? the way it sort of went about? and maybe, crucial, twl they will seek emergency order to reinstate this requirement? >> yeah, that is a good question, john, because the question now is are they going to ask for a stay of this order basically that would allow airlines to reinstitute the mandate and we know many airlines are quite happy with the judge's decision. they didn't want to continue with the mask mandate. but i do think the doj and biden

administration created more confusion by not immediately coming out and saying they are going to file an appeal, the issue of primarily whether the government has the legal authority to impose these kind of mandates during a public-health crisis. i said this on the program the other night, that what was most troubling about this judge's decision, was so sweeping in nature, she essentially said the biden administration never had the authority to implement a mask mandate. and this is the single judge, just been on the bench two years. really, substituting her opinion for that of public-health officials who have been telling you us for months and months that masks were necessary to reduce the spread of covid while in airports and train stations. so very troubling decision. >> hmm. all right. so, areva, overall, i mean, we have seen several other pan demmics-related requirements overturned by courts. so what is next here? are there other targets for

covid-related mandates and other policies that might also be overturned? >> that is a great question because what we have how -- what we have seen how political these mandates, and these protocols to mitigate the spread of covid have become. so, rather than everything related to covid approximating looked at through the lenses of public-health officials, and what is in the best health of the public, it has kmb km down to these political wars, and many cases culture wars. we saw that is what happened with respect to wearing of the mask. it wbecame a sign of whether yo supported what some called liberation and freedom, versus whether you supported what public-health officials said was necessary to mitigate the spread of covid, and again, that -- that's been very disturbing, particularly as you think about how disproportionate the outcome has been for african-americans and latinx community, those who have been disproportionately impacted by covid, many communities wanting to continue with protocols where many communities are saying we are

done social distancing, we are with masking. but clearly, we are seeing numbers rise in the northeastern part of the country so covid is not over. >> yeah. so much at stake, as you say. always appreciate your expertise, areva martin, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> shanghai reported no new covid infections outside quarantine areas on two districts on wednesday and some factory employees are beginning to go back to work and anger ask fwrus frustration still growing under lockdown. this new social media shows an elderly woman who appears to have left quarantine trying to enter a neighborhood, ask she is seen arguing with covid workers who are trying to force her to go back to the quarantine center. and obviously, she is not the only one who is tired of being under quarantine or lockdown in shanghai. cnn's david culver looks at the tense situation there, as china doubles down on its zero-covid policy.

>> reporter: shanghai resident pushing back after nearly three weeks of lockdown. these videos circulating on social media show people confronting police for being forced from homes. these are not people with covid-19, but rather people whose apartments are being turned into government facilities to surp surge with the covid cases. chinese officials vow to send every positive case of covid-19 and any close contact to government quarantine, no matter the age. here, you see an elderly man shuffling towards a group of other senior scitizens, some in their 90s, most in wheelchairs transferred from this iets lagz city after testing positive. video shared from inside another center shows elderly patients seemingly unattended. cots set up in halls with wooden boards and thin sheets as bedding. since the start of the outbreak in early march, more than 400,000 cases have been reported

in the city according to china's health commission. and more than 25 million people are still in strict lockdown. cnn's been living through it. we have mostly been sealed inside our homes, let out only for mandatory-covid test and the occasional government' distribution of groceries. last week, we had a brief taste of freedom. i could step out of my apartment, and waall the way to the compound gate. still, double locked. but since, a reversal for our community, new restrictions have us sealed back inside our properties. the draconian and inconsistent properties, coupled with constant uncertainty weigh heavily. people tired, pushing back -- physically and through words. these banners appeared on the streets of shanghai in a cover of night. this one, calling residents to resist the limit lts lockdown. this one reading "people are dying."

referring to the dire struggle to secure food and medical care. online, a flood of frustration surfacing on china's heavily-controlled internet. on chinese social media platform beibo, users gab quoting the first sentence of china's national anthem. it reads, "rise those who don't want to be enslaved." a rally call no longer aimed at fosh oppressors but rather beijing's pandemic response and harsh restrictions. that line, now censored. some residents, even boldly calling out chinese officials for perceived hypocrisy. this person waring the photo of one of china foreign ministry's sp spokespersons who repeatedly warned of harming people's wellbeing. the sarcastic critique shared repeatedly online. backlash likely to worsen as the weeks-long lockdown draws on, further damaging china's economic engine.

>> you can manage strategy in excesstive manner itself leads to exactly what zero-covid strat vi wants to avoid. >> reporter: the growing sis dissent calling into the zero-covid policy at a critical time. late thr year, president xi jinping is expected to assume an unprecedented third time, paving the way for him to rule for life. but the coronation now marred by discontent over a policy so closely tied to the people's leader. david culver, cnn shanghai. conditions in the war-torn city of mariupol have been described as truly horrific. after the break, john vause will be bach to talk with the head of one organization who is trying to get ukrainians the help they need. stay with us.

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welcome back, everybody. ukraine's deputy prime minister says a humanitarian corridor out of war torn mariupol did not go as planned on russianor thurgz. she blames russian troops. russian organization transportation also failed to get residents to departure sites on time, which left ambulances left waiting ask many refused to board buses because the advantage wagz route had been determined by russian officials. u.n. says more than 5 million ukrainance have fled this country since the war began. another upon million people are displaced within ukraine. most are heading or crossing the border into poland but the polish board guard report oefrs the weekend, more people returned to ukraine than traveled into poland for the first time since this war divan two month ago. for more now on the humanitarian crisis, we are joined by yanegler, and you have been on the ground here a while.

within here the last couple months, over the last couple years. i want to get your impression, though, because you have just been around the kyiv area. you were there before the war. you saw what the towns and cities were like. you have just seen them now. what was your impression? >> the two months have really devastated much more of ukraine than i think the world has understood. this -- these are places where wonderful -- like, lviv here -- beautiful places. ask n and now, in pieces. and this is happening now massively in the eastern parts of the countries, far away with from here but in really crossfire that we haven't seen in europe since the second world war. >> do you think the arrest rest the world really understands the stale and devastation of what iss what is happening? here? >> i don't think they are. you really have to come see what a devastated city looks like after meeting a barrage of explosive weapons for many weeks. that's why, also, wie have this

12 million people who have fled the homes. i don't think we have seen that, ever, before in human history we talk about since second world war. i mean, 2 million people per week. >> lot of period in a very short period of time and the speed of this crisis, i think, has taken in terms of receive jeefs, took a lot of peoplepy surprise but we are also look at the situation in mariupol. this has been under siege two months. aid can't get, people can't get out. so, what -- what have you been able to do there? and what -- when a your fears when it comes to mariupol? >> well, that is the whole cruel reality of besiegement and that's what we now fear in the east, where we are desperately now distributing food parcels, hygiene packets, all of what is needed for the people who remain

in the east chl. i fear these places i visited just before the invasion will be besieged. that will be a catastrophe. there fighting men in there who are not going to give up and then it's fill of elderly people. disabled people, who cannot leave. so we need a easter cease-fire, like secretary general of the u.n. has asked for. easter now in the next coming of days so that we can bring aid in, and get the disabled people out. >> so your biggest person is that mariupol will not be the last sort of sieged city which comes under russian siege and we talk aboutable poblly 20,000 dead civilians inside mariupol. when you talk about these cities besieged by the russian forces, it is the most vulnerable who are left behind. it is the elderly, the disabled as you say. that presents its own unique challenges for groups like yours, so how do you deal with

that? >> people have to move voluntarily, and my own staff last night and colleague, ukrainian colleagues who are courageously keeping up these lifelines. they tell about parents being trapped in the east. that we have both staff, colleagues, and their relatives now controlled by russian forces or in areas in crossfire where we have lost all contact with people. it's a desperate situation. it cannot go on like this for -- for -- for long. the death toll will just skyrocket. it will be a bloodbath. >> the initial request was $1.7 billion. um, has that been raised? and is that enough, if this continues to dwn g on because obviously, no one thought it would last two months and now there is fears it could last six months, maybe even longer.

>> it's not enough at all. i think we received about 65% of what we need for these six months. organization like mine are rolling out a major, major relief operation where have logistics line from romania, moldova. we are doing distribution sets and so on but if this this lasts long, we need much bigger resources than we have. we have having to scale up much more, especially in the east but also in central parts and western parts of the country, where people are living in subhuman conditions, in collective centers. millions of people are internally displaced on top of the 5 million who left the country. >> in any war, there are victors on both sides and innocent victims on both sides. what do you know how they are coping on the russian side on areas close to the ukrainian border?

and there is tension. we are humanitarians. we need to be there as much as here because there are great needs there. we know there is very little aid operations there. no big humanitarian organizations are doing anything big in the russian-controlled areas. there are hundreds or thousands or so of people who fled into russia. so this catastrophe is really -- if the war is allowed to go on with explosive weapons in urban areas, i cannot fathom how it will be months from now. we need cease-fire now and. >> it does appear it could be heading for a syria-like situation. thank for everything you do. take -- head now to kim at cnn world headquarters. kim. >> thanks so much, john. second time this week, israel is accusing hamas of firing rockets from gaza towards israel. israel's military responded with

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the french presidential candidates clashed in a tv debate just days ahead of snd's runoff election. president emmanuel macron, far right challenger marine le pen sparred over a range of topics, including russia, france's commitment to the eu, and the economy. cnn's melissa bell has details from paris.

>> reporter: it was the only debate of a campaign that has seen two very different visions for transpitted against one another. on one hand, that of the incumbent, the scentrist, globalist, emmanuel macron. on the other, marine le pen. the debate began on the cost of living, which has been central to le pen's campaign. >> translator: here again, i must be the spokesperson of the french people because mr. macron, i heard i withory government, you are delighted to have increased french people's purchasing power. py me? i only saw french people who told me about their problems with purchasing power. i only saw people who told me they can't make it anymore, they can't get by, they can't make ends meet at the end of the month. >> translator: i am proud that, altogether, we have made it possible to create 1.2 million pay slaves because i was looking at your measures, there is not

even word of employment in it which is striking. >> reporter: the war in ukraine is another issue that has loomed large in the campaign so far that featured heavily in wednesday's night's debate with macron' tacking marine le pen not only on her historic proximity to vladimir putin but on her party's loan from a russian bank back in 2014. >> translator: you still haven't paid back that loan. >> translator: it is quite long, mr. macron, yes. this is not shameful. >> i never thought it shameful. my problem is, le pen, i hope you will recognize is that all this creates a dependence. >> i have no dependence, other than replaying my loan, mr. macron. >> but your loan was not contracted with just any bank, even for russia but with the interests, power, and everyone will be able to verify it, and so you need to own up to it. that is all, own up to, mrs. le pen. >> on one hand, man eman el

macron, on the other, le pen, while she's come back from more skeptic positions of the last few years still wants to see europe reformed, in order to panic a much looser alliance of sovereign nations. >> translator: let me say to emmanuel macron there is no european sovereignty, because there is no european people. there is a sovereignty when there is a people. there is a french sovereignty. there is no european sovereignty, and i understood that you wish to replace france with european sovereignty. you have done it symbolically by replacing the french flag with the european one. >> changing a club on your own by reducing your membership phoebe saying i choose my rules -- well, either, the others follow you because that's europe. there are 27 of us around the table. or you go your one way. and what you describe in your program sounds like going your own way. the second thing you propose is

an ahinelliance with russia whis amongst your priorities. it is always in your ploem. it's amazing. >> in 2017, marine le pen was widely have seen to locket the election on the night of the debate. this time, she had spent a couple days preparing. and if the polls have been widening in favor of emmanuel macron, it seems there is still everything to play for when fransz goes to the polls oh sunday. and as the debate reminded us, very much at stake. melissa bell, cnn paris. >> the british prime minister kicking off a two-day trip in india where jobs and ukraine are topping the askren da. reportedly told journalists onto way over he has every intention of run against in the next election despite the tarnish from the party gate scandal back home. on wednesday, he apologized, yet again, for violating his own government's covid-lockdown rules and humbly vowed to get on with the job. in the coming hours, parliament

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russian tennis players will be banned from competing at wimbledon this year because of their country's invasion of ukraine. belarusian players also can't take part. organizers for the grand slam event cite russia's, quote, unjustified and unprecedented military aggression. the kremlin calls the decision unacceptable. this will affect a number of high ranked players, both men

and women, including world number two daniil medvedev. and ukrainian farmers say the war is making it hard to plant or sell crops. they're constantly on alert for the barrage of russian rockets, bombs, and gunfire coming at them. ed lavandera brings us their story. >> reporter: sergei runs a one-man dairy operation. he has six cows on a little farm just 15 miles from the front lines of the battlefield in southern ukraine. but neither russian soldiers or falling rockets have stopped the 49-year-old from tending to his work. that is sergei's house there just in the distance, and there is an unexploded rocket that landed this close, landed here about a week ago. did you hear that rocket land? >> translator: everything happened before my eyes. >>. >> reporter: the explosions erupted all around him when this strike hit. russian rockets often target his village of 500 people.

>> translator: we were covered with dust. just dust and shrapnel all the way here. i fell to the ground, crawling, not feeling my legs or arms. it was scary. for those who have not gone through this, you would not believe it. >> reporter: sergei keeps one eye on his herd and the other eye on the war. so these are sergiy's six dairy cows. if you notice, he has them spread out. he wants to separate them so they don't all get killed in one strike. he must keep the cows alive. this is the life of a farmer in ukraine. maxim and his family grow wheat and sunflower on these lush, wide-open fields. but the war has upended his business. >> translator: it's been unfortunate for all of us. basically everything has shut down, and we aren't working now.

>> reporter: maxim says the cost of fuel and grain seeds have skyrocketed. it's difficult to find parts to repair farm machinery. he's supposed to plant this year's wheat crop in the coming weeks, but if the fighting returns to this land, it won't happen. so this is the storage area where they keep their sunflower seeds, but they haven't been able to sell it because of the war. maxim is also stuck with an entire season's sunflower seed harvest. it just sits in this storage space. will this war kill your business? >> translator: it's already killed it. we have stockpiled our wheat production and our sunflowers, but we aren't able to sell them. so i would say it is the beginning of the end. >> reporter: ukraine is considered the world's bread basket along with russia, producing 30% of the world's wheat exports. the united nations says this war is creating a food production crisis not seen since world war ii. thousands of ukrainian farmers

now find themselves on the front lines of this war, and their growing fields of wheat and sunflower have been turned into debris fields for missiles and rockets and other explosives. the wreckage of recent battles still sit in the farm fields. the body of a russian soldier is buried next to this ammunition supply truck. farm or fight is the choice facing frontline farmers. sergiy has already faced this life-and-death decision. when the russians invaded this village last month, sergiy joined the fight. he was shot in the shoulder. if the russians come back, do you want to fight again? >> translator: what else can we do? i'll take my pitchfork and go fight. i will defend my village until the end. >> reporter: when the war returns, the harvest will have to wait. ed lavandera, cnn.

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